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Dec 2024
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506: Management Consulting Storyboard | ...

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One of the most powerful tools management consultants from firms like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, et al. use to solve problems and communicate solutions to clients is the consulting storyboard. Whether you're new to consulting or just want to sharpen your storyboarding for consulting skills, this video is for you.

Here are some of the topics we covered:
- Why you should use consulting storyboard
- Where storyboard fit in a consulting strategy study
- How corporate strategy studies are different
- What is a storyboard? 
- What are the biggest questions you have about consulting storyboards? 

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